Etiket: hacker

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack that took down Microsoft’s Web site Friday, two days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of a widespread Windows vulnerability, is being investigated by the Redmond, Washington-based software company and law enforcement officials. Microsoft has some clues as to the origin of the outage, which lasted for about 1…

Analysts credit advance warning about the Blaster worm, in addition to Microsoft’s clever rewriting of standard Internet-connection protocols, as the weapons used in defeating a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the software company’s Windows help Web site on August 16th. The Blaster worm, which infected more than one million computers worldwide in August, created a legion…

Security experts and network administrators are once again on worm watch because of the existence of exploit code for a software vulnerability in a widely used Windows service. The critical weakness lies in the Windows Messenger Service, a feature used primarily in business by systems administrators who use the service to send alerts to users…